▶ Donita Sparks, singer and guitarist with grungey band L7, pulled down her jeans and knickers during a 1992 performance of Pretend We're Dead. The audience got off lightly with full-frontal nudity: at Reading festival that year, she threw her used tampon into the crowd.

▶ In the gameshow segment Win or Weep, a contestant's most prized possession was destroyed if they failed to win. It outraged the tabloids but inspired later shows such as MTV's Trashed and Sky1's Beat the Crusher.